Still Alive + Minecraft = Internet

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It’s hard not to think that musical blocks weren’t added to Minecraft with the sole intention of ensuring a trillion new YouTube videos that we all can’t resist posting. Double that down with the internet’s endless love for Portal’s Still Alive (how will they ever compete with that in Portal 2?), and you’ve got a post that has to be there first thing on a Monday morning to correctly start your week. And this isn’t a half-arsed job. Incredibly only taking five or six hours to put together, this is a remarkable piano rendition of the Coulton song.

The project, by Tritex989, came after popular demand from his posting of the introduction. He explains that the timing issues are due to redstone lag, rather than setting it up incorrectly. But since the idea of getting two notes to play in order is beyond me the idea that someone may criticise it seems very silly to me.

Bah, i tried to lean about how to use logic gates from the wiki, but it gave me a terrible headache. I thought “How hard can it be?” Then saw an amazing picture of a “JK Flip-flop” at which point I thought they were taking the piss. But no, such a thing really does exist, and more… it has a purpose. Though I know not what it could be.

I need to sink a few more hours into the game but I have this fear that as soon as I fire it up, it will immediately be 4am in the morning 2 hours before I have to up for work, but because of strange temporal anomolies due to Einsteinian time-dilation theory (or something) it will only feel like I started playing 20 minutes ago at 7pm.

That is what happened last time and all I did was build a glass house and shit myself when I heard a strange noise in the cave…

Brilliant game but I feel rather inferior to some of the guys/gals working on the wacky projects.

I mean INPUT->redstone->block with redstone torch->redstone->block with redstone torch->redstone->OUTPUT. Each of those (redstone->block with redstone torch) is a NOT gate, because it reverses the input’s value. It is called a “repeater” on the wiki, because it is used to extend redstone signals past the 17 block limit. However, the torch change induces a delay which is fortunately almost identical to a double note duration. I employed this to good effect with a pressure plate to make a “doorbell” that goes ding-dong.

He does a pretty good job of laying down the basics of all the gates and such. Beyond that, the next best thing is to make your self a large flat playground in-game, a large pile of redstone dust, some switches, and go at it.

Quoting myself from here
“I predict that within the next week or so, RPS will run a story where somebody has created a machine to automatically play a well-known video game tune using redstone and tone blocks.”

I think everybody who’s been on the internet and reading RPS for more than a week or two probably guessed that within a week of the music blocks going live people would be posting video’s of video game tunes played with them.

Ranked in order of probability would be…

Still Alive
Mario 1-1
Zelda theme

Then I expect to see some Moonlight Sonata, maybe some Canon, then some pop/hip Hop themes.

Now all I have to do is reopen my minecraft, forge new weapons and sprint from ‘Ground’ to ‘Lava level’ through three security doors and find my inventory before it despawns, then try to work out how to make use of my redstone bounty to make sweet music!